Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner
July 16, 2007

Report 2007-009 Released

The Information and Privacy Commissioner, Phil Wall, has released his Report 2007-009 under authority of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act. A summary of the Report is included below.

To view the Report in its entirety, please go to //www.oipc.gov.nl.ca/reports.htm.

Report: 2007-009

Report Date: July 6, 2007

Public Body: College of the North Atlantic

Summary: The Applicant applied to the College of the North Atlantic (CNA) for access to any and all e-mail records containing a reference to him which had not already been disclosed to him in a previous request. This previous request included a specific group of e-mails. CNA responded by saying that there were no additional e-mail records to be disclosed as all relevant e-mails had already been disclosed to him. The Applicant presented evidence that this may not be the case, by informing CNA of certain responsive e-mails he had acquired through another means which he said should have been disclosed to him in its search, but were not. CNA responded by claiming section 13, saying that the Applicant clearly already had those particular e-mails. During informal resolution efforts, CNA agreed to release a number of additional e-mails as proposed by the Commissioner�s Office. As a result, the Commissioner issued no recommendation to release further e-mail records. The Commissioner declined to review the Applicant�s fee complaint, and he also determined that there was no basis for the Applicant�s complaint about CNA�s use of a 30 day extension. The Commissioner did, however, find that CNA had failed in its duty to assist the Applicant, and issued a recommendation in that regard.

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Media contact:
Sandy Hounsell
Executive Director
Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner
709-729-6309

2007 07 16                                                  10:30 a.m.

 


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